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Biden Administration Opposes Surgery for Transgender Minors

✇NYT: Science
Roni Caryn Rabin， Teddy Rosenbluth and Noah Weiland
The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.

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So-called top surgery performed on a 14-year-old in California in 2015. The most common surgical procedures by far for transgender minors are breast reductions or mastectomies.

Did the First Australians Keep Dingoes as Pets?

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Franz Lidz
Burial remains from 800-2,000 years ago hint that the First Australians may have kept the continent’s famous canine species as pets.

© Biodiversity Heritage Library

An illustration of several dingoes, from the 1863 book “The Mammals of Australia.” A recent paper suggested that the wild dogs may have been trusted companions of the First Australians.

How Pet Care Became a Big Business

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Katie Thomas
People have grown more attached to their pets — and more willing to spend money on them — turning animal medicine into a high-tech industry worth billions.

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Heather Massey of Carlton, Ga., with her dog, Lunabear. She is still paying off a bill for scans and care six years after her previous dog, Ladybird, was diagnosed with brain cancer.

Are We Loving Our Pets to Death?

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Linda Baker
Pet owners are treating their animal charges ever more like humans. But that isn’t good for pets, or for us, many experts argue.

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The proliferation of dog strollers is one sign of a trend in which pets’ lives have become constrained and dependent on humans.

‘Tiny Crime Fighters With Wings’: Bees Go to Work on a Virginia ‘Body Farm’

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Christine Hauser
By studying bees and their honey near decomposing human tissue, researchers at George Mason University hope to give crime scene investigators a new tool for finding the hidden dead.

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Researchers at George Mason University’s new “body farm” in Northern Virginia hope to use bees to draw up a formula for human decomposition that investigators can use to narrow a search for human remains.

Researchers Say Social Media Warning Is Too Broad

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Ellen Barry
Some scientists who study youth mental health say the evidence does not support the notion that social media is harmful per se.

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Some researches believe the warning label proposed by Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, oversimplifies the evidence.

In Homes With Children, Even Loaded Guns Are Often Left Unsecured

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Teddy Rosenbluth
Firearms often are not stored safely in U.S. homes, a federal survey found. At the same time, gun-related suicides and injuries to children are on the rise.

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A handgun kept in a portable case with biometric fingerprint access. Gun storage practices vary, but in a new survey about half of gun owners with loaded firearms at home did not lock them away.

How Wombats May Save Other Animals From Wildfires

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Darren Incorvaia
They build extensive burrow networks and don’t seem to mind when other woodland creatures use them as flameproof bunkers.

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Wombat a wildlife sanctuary on the South Coast of New South Wales. Their burrows can serve as fireproof refuges for small mammals, birds, and reptiles during and after extreme fires.

FDA Panel Rejects Use of MDMA for Treatment of PTSD

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Andrew Jacobs
An independent group of experts expressed concerns that the data from clinical trials did not outweigh risks for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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A dose of MDMA from the MAPS Public Benefit Corp., which is now renamed as Lykos Therapeutics, a for-profit company whose studies the F.D.A. is analyzing.

Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Removed From Patient

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Roni Caryn Rabin
The organ, from a genetically modified animal, failed because of a lack of blood flow, surgeons said, but did not appear to have been rejected by the body.

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Lisa Pisano looked at photos of her dog after receiving a pig kidney transplant at the NYU Langone Health in New York in April.

Russia Is Increasingly Blocking Ukraine’s Starlink Service

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Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano
Russia has deployed advanced tech to interfere with Elon Musk’s satellite internet service, Ukrainian officials said, leading to more outages on the northern front battle line.

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Members of the Achilles Drone battalion of Ukraine’s 92nd Assault Brigade in Kharkiv, Ukraine. They depend on Starlink service for communications and to conduct drone strikes.

Dr. Paul Parkman, Who Helped to Eliminate Rubella, Dies at 91

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Sam Roberts
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.

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Dr. Paul D. Parkman, right, and Dr. Harry M. Meyer Jr. inspecting a culture of the rubella virus in 1967. Working with a team of researchers, they created a vaccine for the disease.

In the House of Psychiatry, a Jarring Tale of Violence

✇NYT: Science
Ellen Barry
At the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting, a patient described a restraint that haunts him, more than eight years later.

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Matthew Tuleja, a former college football player, hopes that sharing his story will help reduce the use of restraints in psychiatry.

Ed Dwight Goes to Space 63 Years After Training as 1st Black Astronaut

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Amanda Holpuch
Edward Dwight was among the first pilots that the United States was training to send to space in 1961, but he was passed over. On Sunday, he finally made it on a Blue Origin flight.

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Edward Dwight was one of six people who went to space aboard the Mission NS-25 crew capsule from Blue Origin on Sunday. Upon exiting, he raised his arm and said, “Long time coming.”
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